Music to Haunt Your Spouse By

As my long time readers might recall, I’m a Boris Karloff fan, and lately I’ve been rewatching Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1955-56), an old British TV series starring Karloff as Colonel March. The other night, I got to the episode “Present Tense.” In the episode, Colonel March comes to check on his widowed niece, Emily, whose late husband died in a plane crash right before her eyes. But Emily doesn’t seem to believe that husband Ernest is gone, going so far as to talk about him in the present tense. This causes much concern to Emily’s doctor and her new boyfriend, not to mention Uncle March. It’s because Ernest’s ghost is visiting her, of course. Emily hears the ghostly playing of her husband Ernest. From “Present Tense,” Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1955). (Click image to play the scene; should start at about 6:05). In the scene above [1] (watch it here; starts at about 6:05), Emily hears someone playing the piano in the middle of the night; playing just like her husband…